[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 29, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 29CFR570.54]



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                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 

         CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

 

PART 570_CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION

--Table of Contents

 

   Subpart E_Occupations Particularly Hazardous for the Employment of 

Minors Between 16 and 18 Years of Age or Detrimental to Their Health or 

                               Well-Being

 

Sec.  570.54  Logging occupations and occupations in the operation of 

any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage stock mill (Order 4).



    (a) Finding and declaration of fact. All occupations in logging and 

all occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle 

mill, or cooperage-stock mill are particularly hazardous for the 

employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age, except the 

following:

    (1) Exceptions applying to logging:

    (i) Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops.

    (ii) Work in the construction, operation, repair, or maintenance of 

living and administrative quarters of logging camps.

    (iii) Work in timber cruising, surveying, or logging-engineering 

parties; work in the repair or maintenance of roads, railroads, or 

flumes; work in forest protection, such as clearing fire trails or 

roads, piling and burning slash, maintaining fire-fighting equipment, 

constructing and maintaining telephone lines, or acting as fire lookout 

or fire patrolman away from the actual logging operations: Provided, 

That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the felling of 

bucking of timber, the collecting or transporting of logs, the operation 

of power-driven machinery, the handling or use of explosives, and work 

on trestles.

    (iv) Peeling of fence posts, pulpwood, chemicalwood, excelsior wood, 

cordwood, or similar products, when not done in conjunction with and at 

the same time and place as other logging occupations declared hazardous 

by this section.

    (v) Work in the feeding or care of animals.

    (2) Exceptions applying to the operation of any permanent sawmill or 

the operation of any lath mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill: 

Provided, That these exceptions do not apply to a portable sawmill the 

lumberyard of which is used only for the temporary storage of green 

lumber and in connection with which no office or repair or maintenance 

shop is ordinarily maintained: And further provided, That these 

exceptions do not apply to work which entails entering the sawmill 

building:

    (i) Work in offices or in repair or maintenance shops.

    (ii) Straightening, marking, or tallying lumber on the dry chain or 

the dry drop sorter.

    (iii) Pulling lumber from the dry chain.

    (iv) Clean-up in the lumberyard.

    (v) Piling, handling, or shipping of cooperage stock in yards or 

storage sheds other than operating or assisting in the operation of 

power-driven equipment.

    (vi) Clerical work in yards or shipping sheds, such as done by 

ordermen, tally-men, and shipping clerks.

    (vii) Clean-up work outside shake and shingle mills, except when the 

mill is in operation.

    (viii) Splitting shakes manually from precut and split blocks with a 

froe and mallet, except inside the mill building or cover.

    (ix) Packing shakes into bundles when done in conjunction with 

splitting shakes manually with a froe and mallet, except inside the mill 

building or cover.

    (x) Manual loading of bundles of shingles or shakes into trucks or 

railroad cars, provided that the employer has on file a statement from a 

licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy certifying the minor capable 

of performing this work without injury to himself.

    (b) Definition. As used in this section:

    (1) The term all occupations in logging shall mean all work 

performed in connection with the felling of timber; the bucking or 

converting of timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood,



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chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts, or similar 

products; the collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and 

unloading of such products in connection with logging; the constructing, 

repairing and maintaining of roads, railroads, flumes, or camps used in 

connection with logging; the moving, installing, rigging, and 

maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging; and other work 

performed in connection with logging. The term shall not apply to work 

performed in timber culture, timber-stand improvement, or in emergency 

fire-fighting.

    (2) The term all occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath 

mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill shall mean all work 

performed in or about any such mill in connection with storing of logs 

and bolts; converting logs or bolts into sawn lumber, laths, shingles, 

or cooperage stock; storing, drying, and shipping lumber, laths, 

shingles, cooperage stock, or other products of such mills; and other 

work performed in connection with the operation of any sawmill, lath 

mill, shingle mill, or cooperage-stock mill. The term shall not include 

work performed in the planing-mill department or other remanufacturing 

departments of any sawmill, or in any planing mill or remanufacturing 

plant not a part of a sawmill.



[16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, 

and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963; 32 FR 6024, Apr. 15, 1967. 

Redesignated and amended at 36 FR 25156, Dec. 29, 1971]